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By TK Stewart - For 44-year-old, Evander “The Real Deal” Holyfield, four-time winner of heavyweight titles, what goes around comes around.
After stopping Vinny Maddalone in the third round on Saturday night he happily declared through a wry grin, “Well, I’m back, you know. I’m a lot better.”
He's back with Main Events, the promotional company that he began his career with after the 1984 Olympics and on Saturday night he was back in Corpus Christi, Texas, a town where he hadn't fought since he won on a third-round knockout over Jesse Shelby in 1986.
Now, this old junk-yard dog of a heavyweight is straining at his chain and he's back on the doorstep barking something about another title shot. And who can blame him? In this heavyweight division of 2007, which has a revolving door of belt-wearers, anybody can be champ on any given night and all of a sudden this comeback of Holyfield's doesn't seem so crazy anymore.
He, of course, dismisses the notion that he’s too old to win another heavyweight title. In his defense he brings up the name of a former geriatric heavyweight named George Foreman who became the oldest man to win the championship at age 45. “With age you get more knowledge”, claims Holyfield. “You get a little bit more patient.”
Who would have thought that any crowd would show up to watch Holyfield, a native of Atlanta, Georgia face off against Maddalone, an Italian-American New Yorker, on the Irish, St. Patrick's Day in Corpus Christi, Texas? But, 6,500 curious onlookers paid good money at the American Bank Center to watch Holyfield turn back the hands of Father Time and the wild rushes of Maddalone. [details]
After stopping Vinny Maddalone in the third round on Saturday night he happily declared through a wry grin, “Well, I’m back, you know. I’m a lot better.”
He's back with Main Events, the promotional company that he began his career with after the 1984 Olympics and on Saturday night he was back in Corpus Christi, Texas, a town where he hadn't fought since he won on a third-round knockout over Jesse Shelby in 1986.
Now, this old junk-yard dog of a heavyweight is straining at his chain and he's back on the doorstep barking something about another title shot. And who can blame him? In this heavyweight division of 2007, which has a revolving door of belt-wearers, anybody can be champ on any given night and all of a sudden this comeback of Holyfield's doesn't seem so crazy anymore.
He, of course, dismisses the notion that he’s too old to win another heavyweight title. In his defense he brings up the name of a former geriatric heavyweight named George Foreman who became the oldest man to win the championship at age 45. “With age you get more knowledge”, claims Holyfield. “You get a little bit more patient.”
Who would have thought that any crowd would show up to watch Holyfield, a native of Atlanta, Georgia face off against Maddalone, an Italian-American New Yorker, on the Irish, St. Patrick's Day in Corpus Christi, Texas? But, 6,500 curious onlookers paid good money at the American Bank Center to watch Holyfield turn back the hands of Father Time and the wild rushes of Maddalone. [details]